Faculty Development Program (FDP) on "Demystifying Derivatives" 07/10/2013 To 11/10/2013

A faculty development program (FDP) on "Demystifying Derivatives" was organized by the Department of Management Studied from October 07- 11, 2013. A total of twenty nine participants attended the FDP. The participants included faculty and Research Scholars from different Institutions/Colleges/Universities of India. The inaugural ceremony was graced by the presence of the Chief Guest, Prof. K.K. Aggarwal (Chairman, BOG, MNIT) Guest of Honour Prof. Prabina Rajib (Professor, VGSOM IIT-KGP) along with Dr. G. S. Dhangayach (Head, DMS) and Dr. Satish Kumar (FDP coordinator). The objective of FDP was to impart conceptual and practical learning of derivative concepts and instruments amongst participants. The course content of FDP was deliberate designed to include the issues related to Futures, Options and Swaps such as pricing, trading strategies, modeling and Risk Management. Prof. Prabina Rajib (VGSOM IIT-KGP), Dr. Gourishankar (IIT-KGP) ,Dr. Vinodh Madhavan (IIM-Lucknow) ,Dr. Roopam Kothari (IIS University, Jaipur), Dr. Pankaj Kumar (ITS, Ghaziabad), Dr. Anand (IIM-Ranchi), Dr. Vipul Kumar Singh (IMT, Nagpur) and Dr. Manoj Kumar(IIM-Rohtak) delivered the course content during the program. The program was successfully concluded on 11th October 2013 with the valedictory. The Faculty Development Program achieved its objectives and highly appreciated by all the participants.